I should’nt worry too much Lucas, this is just a one off technical problem, sort of thing that is fixed quickly. You’ll find DUB is business as usual by the morning and will be fine on tuesday (severe bad luck excepted of course!!)
Its been happening since the start of June it started off when they tried to switch a LAN locally and apparently we were told there was a slight difference in the hardware which cause a conflict and then there was a separate power surge. It result in a computer failure and a fall back to the support computer.
This was evident by a large box appearing on the Radar screen showing the system was in reduced mode.
Basically what is happening is we are being locked out of the computer which handle flight data processing and we lose coupling of the aircraft symbols with there flight plans as a result we only see the Squawk code and cannot tell who it is etc. There is also limit interaction allowed with the system.
It happened today for about an hour. There was a ground stop put on departures and no more aircraft were allowed into the system.
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